Hello, welcome to Three Moves Ahead. I am your host, Rowan Kaiser. I am joined today by

3MA co-founder and longtime panelists Troy Goodfellow. Hello, hello. And also, Ian, I didn't ask

how you wanted to be introduced. So introduce yourself.

Hey, my name is Ian Boudreau.

I'm a senior news writer over at PC Games. All right.

Today, we are getting extremely Civil War nerdy about Strategic Command American Civil War

and other grand strategy games or grand macro strategic

level or operational level Civil War games or just whatever other Civil War games we want

to talk about. Civil War is my military history primary interest and also secondary and tertiary.

So I have a lot to say about this.

And the new game also let me invite Ian and Troy to discuss this.

Troy, do you want to talk about how much you care about the Civil War and maybe give a quick Strategic Command overview here?

I love the Civil War.

The Strategic Command is a series of war games by Furious Software, mostly published by Slytherin.

A few years ago, we talked about Strategic Command World War I on the podcast.

These games are very traditional war games, in a sense.

It's mostly about moving your units around the map and they occupy hexes.

These aren't unified commands really in any meaningful sense. There's no

major economy to run. Your economy is based pretty much territory you hold, how much in your supply

lines come from major supply points, and major cities produce purchasing power, which you then use to do research into better weapons, or to buy new units,

or to, in this game, and in the World of One game, do some diplomatic overtures.

Each turn, you have to allocate these points in different ways

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